Need help on Order by Condition

hi, I have a generic column in the table and value can be jan08,feb08................dec11 or YR08,YR09......YR11
i need a order by condition based on the parm selected.
I tried like this but gives me error.
select x
from t
order by decode(&p_cal,'month',(to_number(substr(trim(t), -2)), TO_DATE(substr(trim(t), 1,3)),''MON'')),'year',1);
Thanks
--K

Hi,
Whatever you want, you'll stay in trouble anyway (or the guy maintaining your code when you have retired), since you store year in 2 digits...
I borrowed Salim's suggestion, and see what happens:
MHO%xe> WITH t AS
2         (SELECT 'dec11' m
3            FROM DUAL
4          UNION ALL
5          SELECT 'feb08'
6            FROM DUAL
7          UNION ALL
8          SELECT 'YR08'
9            FROM DUAL
10          UNION ALL
11          SELECT 'jan08'
12            FROM DUAL)
13    SELECT CASE
14              WHEN INSTR (m, 'YR', 1) = 0
15                 THEN TO_DATE (m, 'monYYYY')
16              ELSE TO_DATE (SUBSTR (m, -2), 'YYYY')
17            end m1
18    ,      CASE
19              WHEN INSTR (m, 'YR', 1) = 0
20                 THEN TO_DATE (m, 'monRRRR')
21              ELSE TO_DATE (SUBSTR (m, -2), 'RRRR')
22            end m2
23    from t
24    order by
25           CASE
26              WHEN INSTR (m, 'YR', 1) = 0
27                 THEN TO_DATE (m, 'monYYYY')
28              ELSE TO_DATE (SUBSTR (m, -2), 'YYYY')
29           END;
M1                  M2
01-01-0008 00:00:00 01-01-2008 00:00:00
01-02-0008 00:00:00 01-02-2008 00:00:00
01-05-0008 00:00:00 01-05-2008 00:00:00
01-12-0011 00:00:00 01-12-2011 00:00:00How can you even tell the right CENTURY you're in here?
How will you create reliable reports/overviews/aggregations etc.?
It's 2009 already and still people are using strings to store dates??
Still people only use 2 digits for a year??
Still people refuse to use the DATE functionality Oracle offers?
This 'generic thing' s**ks major/is a very bad approach..you will ALWAYS run into trouble and it will ALWAYS perform less efficient compared to using the right datatype.
DATES are DATES, and therefore they are NOT 'generic strings we can play with without any trouble'.
You might get away with it temporarily, but it will haunt you ( or 'the guy after you' ) eventually.
So, like SomeoneElse already stated: fix your datamodel.
Edited by: hoek on May 4, 2009 10:01 PM some minor changes

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satyaki>/
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      7782 CLARK      MANAGER         7839 09-JUN-81       4450                    10
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satyaki>So, capitalizing this ->
satyaki>
satyaki>declare
2    cursor cur
3    is
4      select *
5      from EMP
6      order by &sortstring;
7
8    rec cur%rowtype;
9 begin
10   for rec in cur
11    Loop
12      DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(rec.ENAME);
13    END LOOP;
14 END;
15 /
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old   6:     order by &sortstring;
new   6:     order by empno,job;
Travor
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CLARK
SCOTT
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satyaki>Got my point?
Regards.
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The report sorts the records correctly but if I rerun the report, the records with the same values in the column that I order by, do not maintain the same order as was in the report's 1st run.
The records will still be sorted in ascending order but those records that have the same values interchange positions each time I run the report.
Is this ok or is there a way of making records with same values maintain the same order in all the report runs? Please assist. Thanks.

user8655468 wrote:
but those records that have the same values interchange positions each time I run the report.
Is this ok or is there a way of making records with same values maintain the same order in all the report runs? Please assist. Thanks.Hello,
It's normal those are same values may interchange at each run. you can add another column in order by clause. That
Order by column1,column2 may add another column3 -- this will maintain always same but column 1,2,3 have same value , it will may interchange.
Hope this helps
Hamid

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Test Data:
CREATE TABLE "TEST_GMU"
   ( "PZINSKEY" VARCHAR2(255) NOT NULL ENABLE,
"PXCREATEDATETIME" DATE,
"PXURGENCYASSIGN" NUMBER(18,0),
"WORK_PXURGENCYWORK" NUMBER(18,0),
"MASTERACCNTFIRMCUSTID" VARCHAR2(255 CHAR)
   ) SEGMENT CREATION IMMEDIATE
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
insert into test_gmu values ('ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12858!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW','16-JUL-13 15.55.57.000000 PM',0,40,'2531215');
insert into test_gmu values ('ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12859!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW','16-JUL-13 15.01.22.000000 PM',0,40,'742254777');
insert into test_gmu values ('ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12860!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW','16-JUL-13 15.01.23.000000 PM',0,40,'2531215');
insert into test_gmu values ('ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12861!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW','16-JUL-13 15.03.55.000000 PM',0,40,'2568091');
insert into test_gmu values ('ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12862!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW','16-JUL-13 15.03.56.000000 PM',0,40,'742254777');
insert into test_gmu values ('ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12863!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW','16-JUL-13 15.03.57.000000 PM',0,40,'2568091');
insert into test_gmu values ('ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12864!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW','16-JUL-13 15.06.29.000000 PM',0,40,'742254777');
insert into test_gmu values ('ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12865!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW','16-JUL-13 15.06.31.000000 PM',0,40,'2568091');
insert into test_gmu values ('ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12866!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW','16-JUL-13 15.06.32.000000 PM',0,40,'742254777');
The output required is like below
1.       AM-12859 BXYZAB CO. 742254777 07/16/2013 15:01:21
2.       AM-12862 BXYZAB CO. 742254777 07/16/2013 15:03:56
3.       AM-12864 BXYZAB CO. 742254777 07/16/2013 15:06:27
4.       AM-12866 BXYZAB CO. 742254777 07/16/2013 15:06:31
5.       AM-12858 WHIJKL CO. 2531215 07/16/2013 15:01:16       The values of this timestamp is actually '16-JUL-13 15.55.57 in datbase
6.       AM-12860 WHIJKL CO. 2531215 07/16/2013 15:01:22
7.       AM-12861 SIJKLM CO. 2568091 07/16/2013 15:03:54
8.       AM-12863 SIJKLM CO. 2568091 07/16/2013 15:03:56
9.       AM-12865 SIJKLM CO. 2568091 07/16/2013 15:06:30
I could work this out till below:
ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12859!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW 7/16/2013 3:01:22 PM 0 40 742254777
ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12862!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW 7/16/2013 3:03:56 PM 0 40 742254777
ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12864!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW 7/16/2013 3:06:29 PM 0 40 742254777
ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12866!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW 7/16/2013 3:06:32 PM 0 40 742254777
ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12861!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW 7/16/2013 3:03:55 PM 0 40 2568091
ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12863!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW 7/16/2013 3:03:57 PM 0 40 2568091
ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12865!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW 7/16/2013 3:06:31 PM 0 40 2568091
ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12860!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW 7/16/2013 3:01:23 PM 0 40 2531215
ASSIGN-WORKBASKET SCHWAB-ACE-SERVICEREQUEST-WORK-ACCTMAINT AM-12858!AMADVISORSERVICESFLOW 7/16/2013 3:55:57 PM 0 40 2531215
with order by masteraccntfirmcustid desc ,pxcreatedatetime
But one of the developer told me masteraccntfirmcustid should be asc
This resultset is supposed to be ordered by
order by masteraccntfirmcustid ,pxurgencyassign desc NULLS LAST ,work_pxurgencywork desc NULLS LAST,pxcreatedatetime
in the test data I have been given pxurgencyassign and work_pxurgencywork is same for all the records
Could you please help?
Thanks,
swapnil

the results of the query are not matching the data in the table. like ....
1.      BXYZAB CO.
2.      BXYZAB CO.
3.      BXYZAB CO.

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